Don't understand the thinking behind the blanket vape tax. Banning dispoables would have made a bigger impact - this will just create an unregulated market for bottles of vape liquid. People will import liquid nicotine and mix their own or importing untested flavours containing god knows what.
Oh I agree but as evidenced by previous crisis and scandals the oversight fund managers charge for is often not even delivered
I'm sure the 6m is reflective of the effort required to ensure the billions were invested correctly in real job creating places.. no wait they just dumped them in funds that other people manage didn't they...
Seems like the international postal union bought into crypto and has been pushing its members for it, most other EU states have them and anpost was relatively late - no reason they couldn't have just said no though www.upu.int/en/news/2023...
In a significant move towards embracing digitalization in the philatelic ecosystem, the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) technical and operational body – the Postal Operations Council ...
A good writeup about how they "work" in practice blockworks.co/news/nft-sta...
Opinion: Whoever says that collectibles are the real use cases for NFTs are dead wrong, at least about stamps.
Such a ridiculous idea. Expected better from anpost but they have jumped on the late crypto bandwagon now www.anpost.com/Shop/Stamp-C...
Looks really good, great to see the universe expanding arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
"To stop the assassin, you must become the assassin."
One thing that micro-transactions in video games have proven irrefutably is that men also want to spend a bunch of money on little outfits, and society had failed them in finding a way to express it.
Bluesky makes it possible for users and orgs *outside Bluesky* to label content for misinformation or other issues. You subscribe to these in the app, and can unsubscribe at any time. Stackable moderation is one of our most novel experiments, so I'm excited that @newsdetective.bsky.social is here
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the democratic world should be embarrassed over the fact that Israelās allies shoot down missiles and drones over the Middle East but have so far ...